Still hemorrhaging: With Shanahan on the hot seat, Washington loses

10:07 PM,
Dec. 8, 2013

Washington Redskins tight end Logan Paulsen (82) fumbles the ball as he collides with Kansas City Chiefs linebacker James-Michael Johnson during the second half of an NFL football game in Landover, Md., on Sunday. The Chiefs recovered the ball and went on to win 45-10.

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Mike Jones
Washington Post

If the Washington Redskins' players do indeed believe that Mike Shanahan should remain their coach, as a number of veterans have expressed in the past two weeks, they sure didn't show it Sunday against the visiting Kansas City Chiefs.

On the same day that a report leaked about a possibly irreparable relationship between Shanahan and team owner Daniel Snyder, which in turn prompted team officials to wonder whether the coach was trying to plan an exit strategy, the Redskins' players looked as if they preferred to be anywhere but the snow-covered, sparsely filled FedEx Field.